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Education and Hiv/Aids Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya

Duflo, Esther - 2017

The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya …: (1) training teachers in the Kenyan Government's HIV/AIDS-education curriculum; (2) encouraging students to debate the … role of condoms and to write essays on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS; and (3) reducing the cost of education …

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Economic Growth, Education, and Aids in Kenya : A Long-Run Analysis

Bell, Clive - 2016

The AIDS epidemic threatens Kenya with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to … counterfactual in which there is no epidemic. Although AIDS does not bring about a catastrophic economic collapse, it does cause …

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Discordant Couples : HIV Infection Among Couples in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania

de Walque, Damien - 2016

paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two … surprising findings about the dynamics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which have important implications for policy. First, at least two …

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Who Gets Aids and How? The Determinants of HIV Infection and Sexual Behaviors in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania

de Walque, Damien - 2016

female genital mutilation are often associated with sexual behaviors, practices, and knowledge related to AIDS. This might …

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Understanding the Cost of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Vorisek, Dana Lauren - 2020

This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exercises can be misleading, for a variety of...

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Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria

Sato, Ryoko - 2018

This paper experimentally evaluates the relative importance of psychic costs of tetanus vaccination compared to monetary costs among women in rural Nigeria. To measure psychic costs, vaccine take-up between two conditions to receive cash incentives is compared: clinic attendance vs. vaccine...

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The Cost of Adjustment to Green Growth Policies : Lessons from Trade Adjustment Costs

Porto, Guido G. - 2017

Green growth policies confront firms and workers with adjustments that may create welfare costs for different segments of the population and cause reductions in near-term actual versus potential gross domestic product. There is little evidence on the cost of adjustment to climate change...

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An Analysis of Physical and Monetary Losses of Environmental Health and Natural Resources in India

Mani, Muthukumara - 2017

This study provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution damage categories: (i) urban air pollution; (ii) inadequate water supply, poor sanitation, and hygiene; and (iii) indoor air pollution. It also provides estimates based on three...

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Economic Analysis of Projects in a Greenhouse World

Hamilton, Kirk - 2017

Recent carbon market prices are substantially lower than mean or median estimates of the social cost of carbon in the literature. Intuition would therefore suggest that' investment errors' are being made, in the sense that markets favor higher carbon-emitting projects, while global welfare would...

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The Economics of Natural Disasters : Concepts and Methods

Hallegatte, S. - 2017

Large-scale disasters regularly affect societies over the globe, causing large destruction and damage. After each of these events, media, insurance companies, and international institu-tions publish numerous assessments of the "cost of the disaster." However these assessments are based on...

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